Asvin Chandru A,[2] an officer of the Indian Administrative Service, is the Collector and District Magistrate of South Goa.

[4] There are 205 revenue villages in South Goa District under seven Talukas (subdistricts) headed each by the Mamlatdar.

According to the 2011 census South Goa has a population of 640,537[9] which is roughly equal to the nation of Montenegro[10] or the US state of Vermont.

South Goa has a sex ratio of 980 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 85.53%.

[13] Languages of South Goa district (2011)[14] At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 66.44% of the population in the district spoke Konkani, 12.38% Hindi, 6.45% Marathi, 5.98% Kannada, 3.39% Urdu, 1.00% Malayalam, 0.86% Telugu, 0.55% Bengali, 0.49% Tamil, 0.49% Gujarati, 0.44% Odia and 0.42% English as their first language.